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It's been a busy old week...

On Wednesday the lovely

jen_c_w appeared in Glasgow on one of her flying visits. We headed out to The Ubiquitous Chip - I can't believe I hadn't taken her before. Being a school night there was only one bottle of wine shared, but the food was lovely and the company was better. Haste ye back.

I finally got away to the cottage this weekend, in time for a heatwave. I was out on my bike for about six hours on Saturday. My old hard-tail mountain bike, not the beautiful road bike. I'd almost forgotten how much fun off-roading can be. And how bloody scary. I headed over to Kilberry on Sunday, and had an excellent lunch, and then back down the road while the sun was still shining. It's weekends like that which remind me that being single by choice is not such a bad choice, at that.

Yesterday was a pretty stressful work day, and this week is going to ramp that up a little, but there's also lots to look forward to. A seasonal dialogue on Thursday for one thing, and a potential dinner date on Friday.

I also went out for a walk tonight, partly to celebrate another clothing milestone. One of the comedy moments you get from being dyslexic is when you go out to buy a 34 inch waist, 32 inch leg pair of 501s, and come back with a 32 waist, 34 inch leg pair. That was a year or so ago, and I never got around to returning them, which was silly, because I haven't been a 32 in those jeans for at least 20 years. There was a point when I thought I was going to have to give up 501s since they didn't seem to make them in 40 inch waist size.

Tonight I pulled out that pair while looking for something else and, just for the hell of it, tried them on. I'm not going to say that I didn't spend a few moments lying on the bed hauling on the buttons, but the point is I actually got the damned things closed, and went out tonight wearing them. A 20 year milestone.

I've been trying to figure out why they fit. I'm still doing the 5/2 diet, though not strictly, and today was a fasting day. More than that, though, it was my 20th straight day of walking more than 10,000 steps (except for two days I took off when I was ill). I think this is doing more good than I thought. A lot of people have said I'm looking better. I might have to start believing them.